Today on Flashpoints: Homeland security and border patrol opens fire with tear gas on poverty stricken asylum seekers at the US/Mexico border. Young children are gassed and put at risk. Also, the fight to cut off US aid for the Saudi lead slaughter in Yemen comes to a head in congress this week.

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